Your reasoning makes sense to me IOhannes. My thinking was that it would be good to be able to install newer versions of Pd independently of the OS distribution it&#39;s running on. I see that they are not entirely independent from each other <span></span>though.<br><br>On Thursday, 3 November 2016, IOhannes m zmölnig &lt;<a href="mailto:zmoelnig@iem.at">zmoelnig@iem.at</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 11/02/2016 09:57 PM, Richie Cyngler wrote:<br>
&gt; I&#39;ve had the same issue on RPi. I&#39;m no backend Linux guy either but it<br>
&gt; seems problematic for Pd&#39;s available current version to be tied to an OS<br>
&gt; release.<br>
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why is this problematic?<br>
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the entire point of a distribution (which is a more accurate term than<br>
&quot;OS&quot;), is to ensure that all the components play together *nicely*.<br>
this works suprisingly well, given that Debian/stable (the one with<br>
Pd-0.46) has about 57000 software packages, that *all* play together nicely.<br>
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&gt; Is there some way around this?<br>
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it occurs to me, that i have posted one a number of times.<br>
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anyhow, I&#39;m planning to provide backports once Debian/stretch has been<br>
released.<br>
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fgmrdsa<br>
IOhannes<br>
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